"He'll make you laugh! He'll make you weep - but always makes you happy!"
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Social & External
The people behind it
Harold Lloyd
Harold Hall aka 'Trouble'
Constance Cummings
Mary Sears
Kenneth Thomson
Vance
Louise Closser Hale
Mrs. Kitterman
Spencer Charters
J.L. O'Brien
Robert McWade
Wesley Kitterman
Eddie Fetherston
Assistant Director Bill
Sydney Jarvis
The Director
Harold Goodwin
Miller
Mary Doran
Margie
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